Reaching the City

Reaching Madeira by plane:

The best way to travel to Madeira is using Madeira - Cristiano Ronaldo’s International Airport, located in Santa Cruz which is the main gateway to the region and is used regularly by the main European airlines.
It takes around 1hr 30 min to fly from Madeira to any of the Portuguese airports and a little over three hours approximately, to get to some of the main airports in the center of Europe.

The modern, spacious terminal building has a tourist office, a residential tourism booking office, a post office, car rental services, travel agencies, exchange bureaus, a restaurant, bars and shops. It also has two Netpoints for free wireless internet access.

The airport is about 16 km, a 15 minutes ride, from the center of Funchal.